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About Irish Poems

Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries.

From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland’s most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish Poems gives us a dazzling selection from a long and distinguished poetic tradition, ranging from the earliest Gaelic bards up to the present. Organized around such themes as politics, religion, Gaelic culture, the Irish landscape, and matters of the heart, the poems collected here come from a wide range of writers old and new, including such literary giants as Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Paul Muldoon, Evan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and many more.

Samuel Thompson To a HedgehogJames Orr from The Irish Cottier’s Death and BurialThomas Moore ‘’Tis the last rose of summer’James Clarence Mangan Dark RosaleenJames Clarence Mangan The Nameless OneJames Clarence Mangan Good Counsel Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading GaolFrancis Ledwidge JuneW. B. Yeats The Stolen ChildW. B. Yeats Down by the Salley GardensW. B. Yeats To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if It were Proved the People Wanted PicturesW. B. Yeats An Irish Airman Forsees His DeathW. B. Yeats The Second ComingW. B. Yeats Sailing to ByzantiumJames Joyce Ecce PuerPatrick Kavanagh Memory of My FatherPatrick Kavanagh PreludeSamuel Beckett GnomeThomas Kinsella ChrysalidesJohn Montague ‘Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people’ John Montague 11 rue DaguerreMichael Hartnet There Will be a TalkingRichard Murphy Seals at High IslandLouis MacNeice SnowLouis MacNeice WolvesMichael Longley In MemoriamSeamus Heaney Mid-Term BreakSeamus Heaney from Clearances Seamus Heaney The UndergroundEiléan Ní Chuilleanàn LondonEiléan Ní Chuilleanàn So She Looked, in that CompanyEavan Boland In Her Own ImageEavan Boland Night FeedEavan Boland NocturneCiaran Carson Turn AgainCiaran Carson The Exiles’ ClubMedbh McGuckian The ‘Singer’Medbh McGuckian The Flower MasterMedbh McGuckian The SittingPaul Muldoon QuoofPaul Muldoon SymposiumColette Bryce The Full Indian Rope TrickAlan Gillis The Ulster WayNick Laird Poetry

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J. M. Synge ‘Is it a month’W. B. Yeats He Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenW. B. Yeats No Second TroyPadraic Colum She Moved Through the FairPatrick Kavanagh On Raglan RoadJames Simmons The ArchaeologistPaul Durcan The Haulier’s Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near MooneLouis MacNeice MayflyMedbh McGuckian On Not Being Your LoverSinead Morrissey & Forgive Us Our TrespassesLeontia Flynn Come Live with Me